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The Atrocities of Germany 


Bay LIBERTY BONDS 
And End Them Forever 


BY 
Newell Dwight Hillis 


ILLUSTRATED WITH CARTOONS 
BY LOUIS RAEMAEKERS 


LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE 
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These selections from Dr. Hillis’ German 
Atrocities: their Nature and Philosophy, are 
reprinted through the kindness of the author 


and his publishers, Fleming H. Revell Com- 
pany, New Yorkand Chicago. The complete 
book contains reproductions of affidavits, 
diarles, scenes, etc. 


GHO.YO0S 
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“Strike him dead. The Day of Judgment | 


will not ask you for reasons.” 


HIS is the motto on the aluminum token that the German Gov- 
ernment gives to every German soldier. At the top is a portrait 
of Deity as the Kaiser conceives him to be; in one hand the 
Kaiser’s god holds a sickle, for the death-harvest, and beneath is the 
motto: “ Strike him dead. The Day of Judgment will not ask you for 
reasons ’—the motto that gives each soldier his license to slay, pillage, 
loot, burn, rape, leave his thousands massacred and mutilated where he 
has passed. 

Some German-Americans still insist that the alleged German 
atrocities represent English lies, Belgian hypocrisies, and French de- 
lusions, but all possibility of evasion or denial has been destroyed. 
Modern courts are satisfied with two forms of testimony, but the German 
atrocities are evidenced by five kinds of indubitable proof. There is ~ 
the testimony ot men and women telling what their own eyes have 
seen, and their own ears have heard,—that is a high form of evidence. 
There is the testimony of little children, children too innocent to invent 
what they are old enough to describe. Third, there is the testimony of 
the photograph,—photographs taken often before the massacred bodies 
had grown cold, and immediately after the German retreat from the 
town they had pillaged. No one can look at the hundreds of photo- 
graphs of mutilated bodies without confessing that the sunlight, like 
a recording angel, has given a damning testimony that cannot be gain- 
said by the monsters who not only killed men who defended the honor 
of their wives, but hacked these young husbands into shreds, mutilating 
the body in ways that can only be mentioned by men to men and in 
whispered tones. 

Another form of proof is found in the journals and diaries of 
the German soldiers. The German has climbed into the witness stand, 
and given conclusive testimony against himself. Had his statements 
been made by Belgians, French or English, we would have denied or 
questioned the words, but when diaries have been taken from the dead 
bodies of German soldiers, and when these different journals contain 
substantially the same statements as to the atrocities committed at a 
given day in a given town, it becomes impossible for an American 
student to deny the daily records of German soldiers, with the con- 
fession of deeds committed sometimes by his fellows and sometimes by 
himself. There is also the testimony of mutilated bodies that have been 


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preserved in certain morgues against the day of judgment when 
arbitrators will behold the proof, hear the witnesses, and weigh the guilt 
of the Germans. The Day of Judgment is coming when these wit- 
nesses will rise literally from the grave and indict the German Kaiser 
and his War Staff for atrocities that are the logical and inevitable result 
of the ceaseless drill of their officers and privates in the science of 
murder, as a method of breaking down the nervous resources of the 
armed soldiers of Belgium and France | 
Overwhelming Evidence 


No horrors in history are so overwhelmingly evidenced as the 
German atrocities. The nature, the number, and the extent of their 
crimes have been documented more thoroughly than the scalpings of 
settlers by Sioux Indians, the horrors of the Black Hole of Calcutta, 
or the cruelties of the Spanish Inquisition. 

After the German troops had passed through, it became possible 
for the village school-teacher, priest or banker, the aged women and 
the children who had escaped to creep out of pits, the caves in the fields, 
or the edge of the woods, where they had been hiding, and return to 
survey the scene of desolation behind them. The French authorities 
hurried forward their authorized representatives, inquests were held, 
photographs taken of the mutilated bodies, and testimony taken and sent 
to the Department of Justice. 


The Number of Atrocities 


The full extent of the reign of terror and frightfulness in France 
and Belgium can only be guessed with a shudder. More than one 
hundred thousand people are simply reported as “missing’’; other multi- 
tudes were burned or thrown into pits. What took place in those 
Belgian towns and cities that are still in German hands will never be 
known until the German officers and soldiers stand before the Great 
Judgment Throne and give their account unto God. 


A Catalogue of Crimes 


The catalogue of German atrocities, now documented, in legal 
reports, with the accompanying photographs, preserved in the Depart- 
ment of Justice of the various nations, makes up the blackest page in 
human history. Long days and nights spent over the records in the 
various capitals, and in courts of justice, journeys to and fro amid 
the ruined villages along a battle front six hundred miles in length, 
leave the head sick and the heart faint. The traveller would become 
utterly hopeless and broken-hearted, and give himself up to black despair, 
were it not that everything that German savagery has done to destroy 
one’s faith in the divine origin of the human soul has been more than 

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“We must do everything in good order, so men to the right and women to the left.” 


recovered by the gentleness, the self-sacrifice, the fortitude, the sympa- 
thy, the heroism of the British, the Belgians, and the French. The 
Germans-have at last compelled all unprejudiced minds to recognize 
the atrocity as the German notion of scientific efficiency. It is not by 
chance that these atrocities were begun on practically the same day, 
August 17th, of 1914, and ended about September rgth, and along a 
line extending from the English Channel to the Swiss frontier, just 
as the murders and mutilations, the rapes and the pillaging began and 
ended at the same time in Poland, Rumania and Serbia, and are now 
being repeated in more malignant forms in Northeastern Italy. 

The story of German occupancy of Belgium and France is a long, 
black story of unspeakable crimes. These brigands broke into banks, 
looted factories, pillaged houses, burned the farmers’ machinery, chopped 
down orchards and vineyards. In the face of their newly-signed treaties 
with the Allied nations, pledging the safeguarding of all buildings 
dedicated to education and religion, with the lives and property of non- 
combatants, the Germans made their treaties mere scraps of paper, 
sneered at the most solemn obligations given by men to men, burned 
cathedrals, colleges and libraries, mutilated old men and women, violated 
little children, nailed a child to a farmer’s barn door upon which they 
found a calf skin drying in the sun, and beneath wrote the word “zwei.” 
They crucified Canadian officers and Roman Catholic nuns. They 
bombed hospitals and Red Cross buildings. ‘They thrust women and 
little children between themselves and the Belgian and French soldiers 
defending their native land. 

The affidavits, photographs, and mutilated bodies are witnesses that 
destroy forever the last shred of doubt and incredulity. For men who are 
open to testimony, the German atrocities are more surely established 
than any of the hideous cruelties recorded in history. Now, for the first 
time, wildest savagery has been reduced to a science, and damned into 
existence under the name of German efficiency. The Germans have 
literally fulfilled the Kaiser’s charge given in 1900 and reproduced in 
1914 upon postal cards for the Kaiser’s soldiers: “You will take no 
prisoners; you will show no mercy; you will give no quarter; you will 
make yourselves as terrible as the Huns under Attila,” 


Eitel Anders 


Here is the diary of Eitel Anders. It is believed that he belonged to 
the 14th Bavarian regiment. The diary was taken from his body upon 
the battle-field, and is similar to hundreds of others. ‘‘We crossed the 
bridge over the Maas at 11:50 in the morning. We then arrived at the 
town of Waendre. When we went out of the town, everything was in 
ruins. In one house a whole collection of weapons was found [the 
Mayor had ordered the women to bring to his house every weapon that 

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THE SHIELDS OF ROSSELAERE 


At Rosselaere the German troops forced the Belgian townsfolk to march in front of them. 


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they could find, that the Germans might have no excuse for saying that 
any one had struck their soldiers or fired a gun]. (All the inhabitants, 
without exception, were brought out and shot. This shooting was heart- 
breaking, as they all knelt down and prayed, but praying is no ground 
for mercy. A few shots rang out, and they fell back into the green grass 
and slept forever. It is real sport.” ) But how did Eitel Anders sleep that 
night? We know that Macbeth did not sleep after he murdered Malcolm 
and Banquo. Did the Kaiser succeed in stultifying conscience in Eitel 
Anders? The next day the soldier made another entry;—mark the 
opening words: “This morning, in happy mood and high spirits, we 
passed through Taturages. But before’ this we cleaned up the suburb of 
Mons, and burned the houses. The inhabitants came out of the houses 
into the open plain. Here many heart-breaking scenes occurred. It was 
really terrible to watch.” 

Plainly the soldier’s aluminum token and the Kaiser’s charge to his 
savage Huns had succeeded. Having stated that he had murdered men, 
young Eitel Anders sleeps well at night, and the “next morning in happy 
mood and high spirits”? wakened to plan fresh crimes. Macbeth had no 
German soldier’s token to help him sleep at night. Conscience became 
the whisper of God in his soul. Sleep forsook his eyes, and slumber his 
eyelids. Shakespeare’s murderer did not dare trust himself out under 
the stars that blazed with anger, but Eitel Anders’ sleep was not disturbed 
by the blood upon his hands, because he really believed the Kaiser would 
be able to stand between him and the Great Day of Judgment. | 

After General Clauss shot fifteen aged men in the streets of Gerber- 
viller, too, that officer rode away with a light heart, quite free from the 
remorse that unseated the reason of Macheth. Plainly the teachings of 
the Kaiser and his war lords have at last succeeded in prostituting the 
conscience of all Germany, officers, soldiers and civilians alike. 

Read the article by that American physician who left Germany 
last summer by way of Switzerland. Note that when a train of English 
soldiers passed through the town, a train loaded with prisoners packed in 
freight cars, without sanitation, wounded men who had been without 
food or drink for three days, men who, with black lips, begged the Ger- 
man women for water, that these women held water just out of reach of 
these English soldiers, and then spilling it on the ground, spat in the 
faces of these wounded men! To-day, the men of Germany without 
moral sense or any remorse following their crimes are like a sky that 
holds an empty socket where once the summer-making sun had shined. 
They are like human bodies out of which the intellect has passed, leaving 
only gibbering idiots. The German “Laws of War on Land,” their 
Handbook of Military Tactics, has organized crime into a science, and 
killed in men the spiritual optic nerve. Germany to-day is an intellectual 
machine, and her officers and her soldiers at last can commit crimes 
without remorse, which proves that they are becoming moral idiots. 

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Gerberviller the Martyred 


In August of 1914, when the German army was broken and com- 
pelled to retreat before the French, they passed through many French 
towns and villages in which they found no soldiers and no weapons, and 
where no battle, no skirmish and no shot took place. During last July 
and August we went slowly from one of these ruined towns to another, 
talking with the broken-hearted women and children, comparing the 
photographs taken immediately after the German retreat and almost 
before the mutilated bodies were cold. Slowly we sifted the evidence. 
On the ground we compared the full official records made at the time, 
with the statements of wretched survivors who live in cellars, where once 
stood the beautiful homes, the orchards and vineyards, but where now all 
is desolation and anguish. 

Among the multitude of events described by witnesses who survived 
the martyrdom of their village are the following: When the noise of the 
approach of General Clauss’ division of twenty thousand soldiers in full 
retreat was heard, an aged Frenchman stepped to his open door. As the 
first automobile swept by, the German officers lifted their revolvers and 
emptied the lead into the old man’s body. He pitched forward down the 
stone steps, and in his death struggle worked his way to the wrought 
iron gate, where after the German retreat he was found dead. Before 
touching the body, official photographers, under the direction of their 
noble Prefect, took their photographs from different angles. In the 
garden behind the smoking cellar was found the wife, lying dead upon 
the grass, her left wrist tied by the clothes-line to the root of an apple 
tree, the right wrist tied to a clump of gooseberry bushes. She was 
dead, but not through dagger or pistol. Standing beside their graves 
we studied the photographs and talked with the families of the fifteen 
aged men whom General Clauss ordered shot because there were no 
young or middle-aged men in the village whom he could kill. 


The Murder of Hereminel 


In a little farming village not many miles from Gerberviller the 
Martyred, stands a battered square belfry, into which the Germans lifted 
their machine guns, hoping to hold back the pursuit of the French army, 
thus giving General Clauss time to retreat and “dig in” some miles to the 
northeast. Tying the ropes to the axle of automobile trucks, the Germans 
soon lifted their guns into the church tower. They then drove the 
French women and children into the church and used them as a screen. 
One young mother did not immediately obey, because of certain duties in 
connection with her little child. With two other girls this young wife 
was stood up against the stone wall of her own little house and shot, for 
the purpose of teaching French women to obey instantly when German 
savages command. ‘ 

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When all the women and children were packed into the church, a 
boy was sent back to tell the French that if they fired upon the guns in the 
church belfry, they would kill their own families. Two nights later when 
a storm was raging, the women slipped a little boy through the window, 
and sent word to the officers of the approaching French army that their 
wives wished them to open fire on the German guns. In blowing these 
weapons out of the belfry, the French killed twenty of their own wives 
and children, who preferred to share death with the men they loved, 
rather than suffer nameless indignities from German brutes. In a hun- 
dred years of history where shall you find a record of soldiers, whether 
red, black or yellow, save Germans, who were such sneaking, snivelling 
cowards that they do not dare play the game fairly and like men, but in 
their chattering terror use women and little children as shields against 
danger? Of a truth, the “Pottsdam gang’ has added a new word to the 
literature of cowardice. | 


Documented Atrocities 


The following are but a few, and these the least sickening, of over 
a thousand documented atrocities, with the original photographs and 
affidavits, resting in the archives of France against the day of reckoning. 

(D. 25, 54.) Withdrawing from Hofstade, im addition to other 
atrocities the Germans cut off both hands of a boy of sixteen. At the 
inquest affidavits were taken from twenty-five witnesses, who saw the 
boy before he died or just afterwards. 

(D. 4, 5.) A Belgian babe, skewered upon the bayonet, driven 
through his stomach, with his little dead head and hands and legs dan- 
gling as the German proudly carried it through the street of a village. 

(Affidavits D. Ttoo-8.) Passing through Haecht, in addition to the 
young women whom they violated and killed, a child three years old was 
found nailed by its hands and feet to a door. 

(D. ro, 45.) In retreating from Laines eight drunken soldiers 
were marching through the street. A little child of two years came 
out and a soldier skewered the child on his bayonet, and carried it away 
while his comrades sang. 

(Affidavits in Alcove 867.) The dead body of a young girl nailed’ 
by her kands to the outside door of a cottage. She was about fourteen 
or sixteen years of age. 7 

At Capelle-au-Bois the Belgian troops found two girls hanging 
naked from a tree with their breasts cut off. In the same town, German 
soldiers held a mother down by force while other soldiers in turn violated 
her daughter in an adjoining room. 

(Alcove C. 60.) A Mother Superior crucified by bayonets to 
the door of her school-house as punishment for scratching the face of 
an officer who was violating the person of a young nun. The burning 
alive of a man who defended his wife. 


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(D. 92-93. Also D. 100-108.) Photographs of an aged priest, 
staked down to the ground, and used as a lavatory until he was dead; 
photographs and affidavits of young girls with one breast cut off. 

This is the German Kultur of which the German philosophers 
babble, the Kultur of which one writes: 

“We are indeed entrusted here on earth with a doubly sacred 
mission; not only to protect Kultur. . . against the narrow- 
hearted huckster-spirit of a thoroughly corrupted and inwardly rotten 
commercialism (Jobbertum), but also to impart Kultur in its most 
august purity, nobility and glory to the whole of humanity, and thereby 
contribute not a little to its salvation.” 


The Diaries of German Soldiers 

The value of the atrocity as a military instrument for sending 
the simoom of terror across the land is set forth in scores of diaries 
taken from the dead bodies of German soldiers. 

(Page 21. Affidavits H-67.) “September 14th. One hundred and 
eight inhabitants are stated to have been shot after they had dug their 
own graves. Innumerable houses have been destroyed. The popula- 
tion looks bitter and scowling.’ August 22d, note-book of Private 
Max Thomas. (“ Our soldiers are so excited, we are like wild beasts. 
To-day, destroyed eight houses, with their inmates. Bayonetted two 
men with their wives and a girl of eighteen. The little one almost 
unnerved me, so innocent was her expression.’’) 

“August 19th. Halted and plundered a villa, as invariably the 
surrounding houses were immediately plundered; dined splendidly, 
drank eleven bottles of champagne, four bottles of wine and six bottles 
of liquer.”’ 

John Van der Schoot, 1toth Company, 39th Infantry, 7th Army 
Corps. “August 19th. Quartered in the University. Boozed through 
the streets of Liege, lie on straw, booze in plenty, little food, so we must - 
steal. We live like gods here in Belgium.” 

Fritz Holman writes before he was killed, “We are never thirsty 
here in France. We drink five and six bottles of champagne a day, 
and as to under linen, we simply loot a house and change. God only 
knows what will happen unto us later on.” 

H. W. Heller. August 6th. ‘Friday at 8:30 came the news that 
the English had landed in Belgium. We smashed everything immedi- 
ately. One sees only burning houses and heaps of dead people and dead 
horses every three steps.” | 

Stephen Luther’s diary. “There was terrible destruction; in a 
farmhouse saw. a woman who had been completely stripped and who 
lay on burnt beams. How savage! Terrible conditions in the destroyed 
houses.” - “August 24, 1914. In Ermiton we took about a thousand 
prisoners. At least five hundred were shot.” ° 


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The German War Staff’s Report 


Here, in the “summarizing report by the General War Staff,” 
published December 31, 1914, is what the German chief says in explana- 
tion of the Belgian campaign: “The need of the German army to push 
through Belgium was imperative. To at once overcome the opposition 
of the inhabitants was a military necessity, and something to be striven 
for in every way.’ And what does “every way” mean? Let the Ger- 
man Staff themselves answer. “The flourishing town of Dinant with 
its suburbs was burnt, and made a heap of ruins, and a large number 
of Belgian lives lost.”” “About 220 inhabitants were then shot, and the 
village was burned. Just now, six o'clock in the afternoon, the crossing 
of the Meuse begins near Dinant; all the suburbs, chateaux and houses 
were burned down during this night. It was a beautiful sight to see 
the villages burning all around us in the distance.”’ ‘The town appeared 
to be perfectly peaceful, nevertheless, for the sake of security, a number 
of the inhabitants were made prisoners by the grenadiers.” “Later, 
we decided to assemble all the BEA hostages against the garden wall, 
where we shot them.” 

Hundreds of witnesses called, after the Germans had passed on, 
show that during four days the German officers and soldiers were en- 
gaged in one horrible orgy of pillage, drunkenness, lust and murder. 
They began by breaking open all wine cellars and soon the officers went 
reeling and staggering through the streets, firing their revolvers into 
the windows of houses and stores. They blasted the safes open with 
dynamite. They carried goods from the shelves to the freight trains, 
and as fast as the town was pillaged, burned the houses. During four 
days they looted and burned twelve hundred houses, stores, factories, 
schools and churches. They left lying on the ground seven hundred 
dead bodies, chiefly women and children. Two trains laden with the 
men and women who were strong enough to work were carried off to 
Germany. All the manufactories where the artisan class were wont to 
work were systematically destroyed. Marching away from towns that 
were blazing furnaces, the German soldiers drove in advance a long line 
of women and children, with a few aged men, and used them as screens 
behind which they could march into the next town that was to be looted. 


Why Germany Started the War 


German barbarism is the natural outgrowth of the arrogant German 
dream of world empire that since 1870 has festered in the German mind 
until it has corrupted and debauched a whole people, a race of devils 
let loose from Hell. This war began in a conference in the Potsdam 
Palace in 1892. The results of that conference were restated in I9QII 
by rrofessor Tannemann, a personal friend of the Kaiser. 


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‘The essence of the Pan-German plan was condensed into a few 
sentences: ‘From Hamburg and the North Sea to the Persian Gulf; 
the immediate goal, by 1915, the conquest of 250,000,000 of the people; 
the ultimate goal, the Germanization of all the nations of the world.” 
One of the Kaiser’s speeches contains the explanation of his dream of 
becoming a world conqueror: “From my childhood I have been under 
the influence of five men,—Alexander, Julius Czsar, Theodoric II, 
Frederick the Great and Napoleon. Each of these men dreamed a 
dream of a world empire; they failed. [ am dreaming a dream of a 
German world empire—and my mailed fist shall succeed.” 

One of the Pan-German empire pamphlets, and many of the Ger- 
man newspapers contain a revised map of Europe, showing “Germania” 
stamped across the continent, with St. Petersburg, Paris and London 
become county seat towns, paying tribute to the world capital, Berlin. 
Many German newspapers, during this war, have published maps show- 
ing Canada as a German province, with the name “Germania” stamped 
across South America, Mexico and Central America. 

That is why the Kaiser told Mr. Gerard: “‘After this war, I 
shall stand no nonsense from the United States.” At Manila Bay in 
1898 the German admiral, who had only been restrained from attacking 
the American squadron by the presence of the English fleet, said to 
Admiral Dewey: 


“About fifteen years from now my country will start a great war. 
She will be in Paris in about two months after the commencement of 
hostilities. Her move on Paris will be but a step to her real object— 
the crushing of England. 

“Some months after we finish our work in Europe we will take 
New York, and probably Washington, and hold them for some time. 
We will put your country in its place with reference to Germany. We 
do not propose to take any of your territory, but we do intend to take 
a billion or so of your dollars from New York and other places. 

“The Monroe Doctrine will be taken charge of by us and we will 
dispose of South America as we wish. Don’t forget this about fifteen 
years from now.” i 

Professor Von Stengel, the German authority on International 
Law, writes: “There will be no conference at The Hague when this 
war is over. The one condition of prosperous existence for the natives 
is submission to our (Germany’s) supreme direction. Under our over- 
lordship all international law would become superfluous, for we of 
ourselves, and instinctively, will give to each nation its own rights.” 

“What about international law?” asked an American diplomat of 
Bernhardi. “There will be no international law,” was the answer. 
“Berlin will decide what laws are best for the rest of the world.” 


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The Morals of the Savage 


The arguments for war used by the “Potsdam gang’ were very 
simple: Agriculture pays six per cent., trade eight per cent., finance 
ten per cent., shipping twelve per cent., but war is an industry that pays 
fifty per cent. dividend upon the investment. Germany’s war upon | 
little Denmark, a people without army or navy, paid an enormous 
dividend upon the investment, in that it gave Germany one of her 
richest provinces, made possible the Kiel Canal, and left Denmark 
permanently crippled and exposed. “‘Denmark and Holland, also, are 
apples,’ says a German author, “that are slowly ripening, and we will 
pick the fruit at the proper time.” ‘The rich cities and provinces won 
from Germany's war upon Austria paid a hundred per cent. upon the 
investment. In his Memoirs Bismarck tells the world plainly that he 
deliberately fomented a war with France, that he might seize the iron 
ore provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, in order to obtain the hematite 
iron that would make it possible for Germany to pass from the agricul- 
tural people into an industrial and manufacturing state as the com- 
petitor of England for the world’s trade. For more than forty years 
the chief argument presented in the Reichstag for increased appropria- 
tions for the army and the navy was the money dividends paid by war. 


The Treasure Boxes of Europe 


To Germany the other nations were so many treasure boxes, ready 
for the military key to unlock them. Boys, farmers’ sons, discussed 
the coming looting expedition in the hayfields. College boys talked about 
the treasures of England and France, Belgium and Holland, as boys 
once talked about emptying the newly discovered gold mines of Cali- 
fornia. Officers drank to “The Day.” [Editors added fuel to the flames 
of avarice. The statesmen cried, “It is our duty to rule these countries, 
and besides, by war we get great gain.” | 

Germany wanted this war, planned this war, prepared for this 
war, and made treasure houses in which she could store the loot of this 
war. Blood went to Germany’s head like drugged wine. For years she 
has been beside herself with military success. The Kaiser for twenty 
years has been rattling his sword and bullying the nations. Standing 
in the market-place, like some huge Goliath, in the spirit of the common 
braggart she has shouted, “I can ‘ick anybody in the world,” 


The Cunning of the Savage 


At last the woven web was spread all over the world through spies. 
Could any man have been lifted up above Berlin, and had full power 
to survey the whole world, he would have seen a spider’s web, with 
its center in Berlin, with the Kaiser as the big black spider, sending 
out along the sinuous threads into every capital of every country and 


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of every continent his evil plans and plots. Men like von Bernstorff in 
Washington, and Munsterburg in Boston, von Kopp, recently convicted 
in San Francisco, Luxburg in Buenos Ayres, with their schemes to 
blow up munition factories, planting of bombshells in ships, dynamiting 
‘Parliament buildings, blowing up bridges, organizing sedition in Mexico, 
India, and Brazil, the millions and millions of dollars spent in our own 
country, the secret decorations of medals given to bankers, manu- 
facturers, shippers, editors, newspaper boys, stenographers, make up 
a story of Machiavellian deviltry and subtle cunning that has no parallel. 
The only difference between Judas and the average German spy is that 
the modern spy in the United States would not only have betrayed 
Jésus for thirty pieces of silyer, but would have given ten per cent. off 
for cash, 


Will Germany Give Up Belgium ? 


The deadly virus of avarice and militarism has burned like a fever 
in Germany’s soul, even as avarice burned in the soul of Judas Iscariot, 
and made him a traitor that crucified not Belgium, but Jesus upon the 
cross. Germany now holds Belgium, a part of the rich loot for which 
she took up the savage’s bludgeon. Is it likely that she will give up 
Belgium until she is driven back from its borders, from every foot of 
its soil, by force of arms? Hear what General Von Bissing said in his 
last testament : 

“Our frontier must be pushed forward to the sea. We must retain 
all Belgium and link it up with the German sphere of power. The 
annual Belgian production of 23,000,000 tons of coal has given us a 
monopoly on the continent which has helped us to maintain our vitality. 
If we do not hold Belgium, administer Belgium, and protect Belgium 
by force of arms, our trade and industry will lose the position they 
have won. Belgium, therefore, must be seized and held, as it now 1s, 
and as it must be in the future. It only remains for us, therefore, to 
avoid, during the peace negotiations, all discussion about the form of 
the annexation, and to talk only about the right of conquest. In view of 
our just and ruthless procedure, the king of the Belgians will be deposed, 
and we can read in Machiavelli that he who desires to take possession 
of a country will be compelled to remove the king, even by killing him.” 


Beautiful France 


This is the way things stand to-day in Belgium and Northern 
France. All men love their native land, but the Frenchman’s love 
has a unique quality. It has made France beautiful, just as through 
affection the lark, after completing its nest, makes it soft and warm 
by pulling the down out of her own bosom. 

The Frenchman found France a wild land, rough, with forests 
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and widened the streams into canals. He enriched the fields, surrounded 
the meadows with odorous hedges and filled swamps with perfumed 
shrubs. Slowly the Frenchman threw arches of stone across the streams 
and carved the bridges until they were rich in art, while everything made 
for use was carried up to beauty. He gave to the roof of the barn its 
lovely lines; the approach to the house was upon a curved road, the 
highways were shaded by two rows of noble trees. The stony hillside 
was terraced, and there the vines grew purple in the sun. How simple 
was his life! What a sanctuary his little home! With what rich em- 
broidery of wheat he covered all the hills! He was prudent without 
being stingy, thrifty without being mean. The French peasant saves 
against old age with one hand and distributes to his children with the 
other. 

And having lavished all his love upon the little farmhouse, the 
granary and the garden, having pruned these grape-vines with their 
clusters of white and purple, the time came when each vine seemed like 
a friend. For these reasons all France was invested with affection and 
beauty. 


What Hate Can Do 


To-day no image is adequate to picture the devastation of France. 
About forty miles north of Paris, one strikes the ruined region. Then 
hour after hour passes, while with slow movement and breaking heart 
the investigator journeys one hundred miles to the north and zigzags 
one hundred and twenty-five miles south again, through that ruined 
region. 

The French peasants loved their land and then lost it. One morning 
the Hun stood at the gate. The farmers with their pruning knives were 
no match for Germans with their machine guns, and down they fell 
under the plum trees they were pruning. The devastated regions of 
France are like unto a world ruined by devils. The Germans cut down 
the apples, the pears, and all the peaches. .They did not spare the 
cherry, the quince, the gooseberry and currant, or the vineyards. Gone 
also all the beautiful bridges—they have been dynamited! Gor all 
the lovely and majestic Thirteenth Century churches! Gone all the 
galleries, for some of the finest art treasures in the world have perished. 

That proclamation on a wall tells the whole story. ‘Let no building 
stand, no vine or tree. Before retreating see that the wells and springs 
are plentifully polluted with corpses and with creosote.’ The spirit 
was this, “Since we Germans cannot have this land, no one else shall.” 


Prince Ejitel’s Crime 


But there is more. One of the historic chateaux is that of Avri- 
court, rich in noble associations of history. It was one of the class of 
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safeguarding historic buildings. For many months it was the home 
of Prince Eitel, the Kaiser’s second son. 

When a judge and jury held inquiry at the ruins of the chateau, 
the aged French servant, who understood the electric lighting and had . 
charge of the gas plant during Eitel’s occupancy, stated that he heard 
the German officers telling Eitel Frederick that he would disgrace the 
German name if he destroyed a building that had no relation to war, 
that could be of no aid or comfort to the French army, and that he 
would make his own name, and that of his family, a name of shame and 
contempt, of obloquy and scorn. But the man would not yield. He 
brought in his auto trucks and carried to the freight cars every historic 
object in the splendid chateau. Having pledged himself to leave the 
building uninjured, the prince stopped his car at the gates of the exit, 
ran back to this historic house, filled his firebrand, spread the flames 
upon the halls, waited until the flames were well in progress, and then 
ordered his men to light the fuse of dynamite bombs. A few days 
later inquiry was held and testimony of aged servants and little children 
was taken. The degeneracy of this German Prince as then revealed 
has not been equalled since the first chapter of Romans catalogued the 
unnatural crimes of the men of the ancient world. 

Germany has no artistic sense. Her favorite philosopher Nietzsche 
says that Germany’s gift is brute force and not intellect. “Wherever 
Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture,” 


Rheims Cathedral 


One of the atrocities that has horrified the civilized world has been 
the ruin of Rheims Cathedral. No building since the Parthenon was 
more precious to the world’s culture. What majesty and dignity in the 
lines! What a wealth of statuary! How wonderful the Twelfth 
Century glass! With what lightness did these arches leap into the air! 
Now, the great bombs have torn holes through the roof; only little bits 
of glass remain; broken are the arches, ruined these flying buttresses, 
the altar where Jeanne d’Arc stood at the crowning of Charles is quite 
gone. The great library, the bishop’s palace, all the art treasures are in 
ruins. 

This destruction served no military purpose. It was not done in 
the heat of battle. It was the sheer, deliberate, wanton brutality of the 
Hun venting his black spleen because he could not have his will. It 
was the act of the barbarian, without imagination and without control. 
The true emblem of the German intellect is beer, just as the emblem of 
the English intellect is port wine, the emblem of the French mind 
champagne, the emblem. of an American intellect like Emerson’s a 
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It is this that explains Germany’s destruction of some of the noblest 
buildings of the world. She cannot by any chance conceive how the 
other races look upon her vandalism.» Her own foreign secretary 
expressed it publicly in one of her state papers, “Let the neutrals cease 
chattering about cathedrals. Germany does not care one straw if all 
the galleries and churches in the world were destroyed, providing we 
gain our military ends.” 

Guizot in his history of civilization presents three tests of a civilized 
people: First, they revere their pledges and honour; second, they 
reverence and pursue the beautiful in painting, architecture and litera- 
ture; third, they exhibit sympathy in reform towards the poor, the weak 
and the unfortunate. Now apply those tests to the Kaiser and his War 
Staff, and you understand why Rheims Cathedral is a ruin. 


Ruined Homes and Hopes 


But the ruin of his cathedrals, his galleries, his schoolhouses, his 
libraries, his farmhouses, his vineyards and orchards, is the least of 
sorrows of the Frenchman. At the officers’ headquarters, one night after 
returning from the front, several officers were recounting to us their 
dramatic experiences. Many harrowing tales were told. During the 
winter of I915, in the trenches at the foot of Vimy Ridge, several 
English officers and a French captain were down in a safety cellar 
having their pipes together and recounting the events of the day. Finally 
the moment came to return to their trenches above. At that moment 
an English sentinel exclaimed: “One week from to-day and I will be 
home in England with my wife and baby. One more week!’ The 
English captain congratulated the boy, saying, “In two months my 
permission will come and I will have eight days home with my family.” 
Then the English officer noticed the French officer’s agitation. Turning 
to him, the English captain exclaimed, “And when do you go, Captain?’”’ 
“When do I go home,” exclaimed the Frenchman bitterly, “when do I 
go home? You Englishmen do not understand! Your land has never 
been invaded. Go home! To what could I go? The Germans have 
been in my land for a year. My little town is gone, quite gone. My 
little house is gone, and gone my little shop! My wife is still a young 
woman! My little girl,—she is just a little, little girl! Why, I never 
thought of her as a woman! And now our priest writes me that my 
young wife and my little girl will have babes in two months by these 
brutes!’ And then the storm broke. The Frenchman beat his head 
upon the rude table, while the two Englishmen fled into the rain and 
night, knowing that the rain was nothing against those tears of pain, 
for that man’s hopes were dead forever. That lieutenant’s only task 
was to recover France and then transfer all his ambitions to God in 
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THE CHILDREN OF BELGIUM 


The Foul Crime Against Women | 


Many Americans have looked with horror upon the photographs 
of the mutilated bodies of women, dead girls, with breasts cut off— 
and for this reason, every German soldier is examined for syphilis by 
the surgeon of the regiment and only the healthy ones receive the card 
giving access to the camp women. If the syphilitic German contami- 
nates the camp woman his disease is handed on to his brother soldier, 
and that means he will be shot. This syphilitic soldier, therefore, finds 
his only chance with the captured French girls, but having contami- 
nated a girl, he fears that she in turn will contaminate the next German 
soldier and, therefore, he mutilates her body to warn away Germans. 
The girl’s life weighs nothing against a German soldier’s lust or the 
possibility of the brute’s handing his contamination to the next soldier. 
This is German efficiency. 


-Insane Through Pain and Grief 


One pathetic and dramatic story ran up and down the trenches upon 
a line twenty miles in length. Told by different soldiers, that tragic 
story never varies in the essential facts. When the Germans ruined 
the village of Ham, they carried away with them some fifty-four girls 
and women between the ages of fourteen and forty. These girls were 
held behind the lines among the camp women, kept for the Huns. One 
chilly morning last April a French boy, lying on a board on the bottom 
of his trench, heard the wild shrieks of a girl. Standing on tiptoe he 
peeped over the top to find the French soldiers in the one trench and 
the Boches in the other had forgotten the peril of the sniper’s bullet, 
and were staring at a young girl out in No Man’s Land. One week 
of cruelty had driven the girl insane. The German soldiers had lifted 
her out of their trench, and with their bayonets had pushed her in the 
direction of the French lines, and were shouting to her to go over to 
her friends among the French. 

What the French soldiers saw was a young woman, clothed in a 
dark blue skirt, her waist torn, her bosom exposed, her hair loose upon 
her shoulders. She was standing bewildered in No Man’s Land. Now 
she poured forth the pealing laughter of a maniac, and now she seemed 
to be talking to herself. Suddenly her eye caught sight of a human 
body, wearing the garb of a French soldier. The girl did not know 
that it was a French boy who in the darkness had heen cutting the 
barbed wire, and in the midst of the German flare had been caught by 
a bullet. Mistaking the dead boy for her young husband, the girl ran 
forward, fell upon her knees, and lifted the body that was already cold 
into her arms. From time to time she would take an arm grown stiff 
and try to put it around her neck and then gaze upon it, not understand- 
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way. Suddenly her eyes saw his coat, lying near by; but she did not 
know that the boy in his death struggles had torn that coat from his 
body. She thought that garment, already stiff with blood, was her own 
little babe. Picking up the coat, she dropped upon her knees, lifted it 
to her breast, and began to sway to and fro, and. soon the French 
soldiers heard a lullaby, familiar and dear to every Frenchman whose 
mother with that song charmed the fear out of the eyes and the terror 
from the heart. So terrible was the scene that for the moment the 
Frenchman and German alike forgot all warfare! Finally, a German 
lifted his rifle to the shoulder, and as the girl, rising to her feet, flung 
the bloody coat away, and screamed, ““The Boche! the Boche!’ his rifle 
cracked, and the young woman sank slowly down. 


Why There Must Be No Inconclusive Peace. 

Such devastations of the soul are why there must be no inconclu- 
sive peace. Unconditional surrender is the only word. Whether this 
war goes on one year or five years it must go on until the Hun repents 
and makes restitution—so far as possible. 

That is what we are fighting for. The people of the United States 
have chosen between militarism and Jesus. Our fathers chose eighteen 
centuries ago. They left the law of the pack behind. They chose to 
become the sons of God, and lose their lives that Christ’s little ones 
might survive. Hospitals, reforms, schoolhouses for children, reform 
acts, emancipation proclamations, the Declaration of Independence, jus- 
tice, and man’s redemption are the results. German militarism is the 
apotheosis of the law of the wolf-pack, return to the club and the cave- 
man. If she succeeds in a return to brute force, her victory will be 
the. most terrible calamity that ever overwhelmed the earth. » Every 
editor and school-teacher, every priest and minister, every patriot and 
parent, should drill into the minds of children and youth the Kaiser’s 
original charge and the meaning thereof: “No quarter will be given, 
no prisoners will be taken. Let all who fall into your hands be at your 
mercy. Make yourselves more frightful than the Huns under Attila.” 

There is but one answer that America can give, but one answer 
that the Hun can understand—guns, shells, bayonets. His armies must 
be beaten, shattered, driven back in overwhelming defeat, until he knows 
in his heart that he can never hope to Germanize the world, either by 
the propaganda of his Kultur which is simply a cover for vileness or 
by his atrocities which are its expression. He must be beaten so over- 
whelmingly that Kultur will be dead forever. He must be beaten, and 
America must help. 

Men and women of America, what will be your share in your 
country’s answer? It is for you to supply the guns, the shells, the 
bayonets that mean decisive Victory. Act and act now. Buy Liberty 
Bonds. Buy more Liberty Bonds—all the Bonds you can. Thunder 
an answer to Germany that will make her cower in fear. 


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